At installer compile time, each file has to be named explicitly.
I've written a Wix build script (and use some custom commands in Visual
Studio, but that really doesn't matter) that uses a utility called
Mallow to build the source tree that gets included in our installers.
For what it's worth, I separate the INSTALLDIR tree into a different
file then link the two together. The file list in our installers changes
constantly, and the rest of the UI etc. doesn't so I keep them separate.
If you're interested in looking at my script let me know and I can send
it to the list.
-Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerry,
Matt
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:54 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Tips for deploying a Web app as an MSI
I am looking to create an MSI in order to deploy a Web app to our
production servers. We already have a build process in place using
VisualBuild, that we would like to keep and I have got all the virtual
directory, app pool etc. creation and properties working beautifully -
which I thought would be the hard bit!
How I'm just looking for some tips as to how to wrap up all the files.
As it is a Web app there are loads of aspx, js, html etc files plus a
few dlls. Is there a clever way to include all the files for an app in
the wsx file, without hardcoding them.
Any tips greatly received.
Matt
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